As Friday’s hospitalization numbers across the Sun Belt appear to confirm CDC head Dr. Robert Redfield’s assertion that the American COVID-19 outbreak has peaked and is starting to fade, the State of Virginia is setting a new precedent by seriously discussing forcing Virginians to be vaccinated with whatever rushed-to-marked candidate the FDA approves first.
During an interview that aired on Friday, the state’s health commissioner said he planned to invoke state law to make vaccinations mandatory – once a western product is available, presumably.
Here’s more from ABC News 8:
State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.
Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021.
Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.
“It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives,” Oliver said.
Pro-medical-choice activists in the state argue that the issue is a matter of medical choice, and that the hasty “expedited” approval process being implemented by the FDA is grounds for concern. State health authorities insist, meanwhile, that they would never mandate a vaccine that hadn’t already proven to be safe.
Virginia Freedom Keepers Director of Communications Kathleen Medaries, a mother of three from Chesterfield, says this is a matter of medical choice.This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not a pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine issue,” Medaries said. “For me, it’s an issue of being able to assess each vaccine for myself and my family one at a time.”
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“He shouldn’t be the one person to make a decision for all of Virginians,””Medaries responded.
The state’s top medical official is opposed to a bill that has been put forth in the state assembly that would create more exemptions to the mandatory vaccination power, allowing exemptions on religious and other grounds.
Oliver believes that COVID-19 is a public health emergency that should take precedent over everything else, and that vaccine-assisted herd immunity is the state’s best and only real defense.
The decision comes after Massachusetts said it would make the flu vaccine mandatory this year as part of a campaign to protect the state’s medical system. We suspect Virginia and Massachusetts won’t be the only states to discuss mandatory COVID and/or flu vaccination in the coming weeks, as the school year begins.
The MRR vaccine, as well as others, have been “mandatory” with the requirement to show proof from a medical provider to go to public school for a long time. As with most things, they can only pull it off if enough of the public is willing to comply. If only people were willing to give the govt. agents a case of lead poisoning instead of compliance the problem would go away, quickly.
when are we as free A mericans going to grow a spine and get fed up with this dictator bullsh*t and say NO MORE!! and yeah lead poisoning is a good idea
if you want the vaccine, fine get it. then you are “protected” and cannot get or spread the virus.
so if i chose to pass, what threat am i to you??? i cannot give you the virus, you are protected, so why should you care??
I DON’T WANT OR NEED YOU TO “save” ME.
if you have a constitutional right to decide what happens to your body (abortion), what gives you or anybody else the right to decide what i do with/to my body??>?
IT’S MY BODY, IT’S MY CHOICE
besides, i have a fourth amendment right to be secure in my body and papers. which means you cannot force me to put something in my body if i don’t want it(think spousal rape here) without the due process of a court hearing
At xtron, you are correct, but I will predict will happen is much like what has happened with the mask hysteria. Notice all the signs saying, “no mask, no service”? The scared sheeple will go along, unthinking, bleating for govt. to tell them what to do and they’ll blindly follow it. It will be corporations, not govt. that will refuse to serve you.
Xtron -- You Have No ‘Rights’. You are Chattel, Owned by a government “Corporation”, if you Participate in it, by using [[[their]]] Banks and ]]]their[[[ “social security number” (Hollerith System of Stock Control) YOU have willingly Forfeited your Natural Rights.
Until more people understand the Root of all Fraud perpetrated by the bolshevik [[[moneychangers]]] and How they Usurped the Republic, (by USURY) they will be ‘fighting around the edges’ and Not addressing the Real Problem.